On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:49:10 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


I don't consider them the same. The closest we've gotten in domestic
terrorism is McVeigh's fertilizer bomb.

Yup, the fertilizer kill a lot of people. No guns involved.

McVeigh's grandfather introduced McVeigh to guns, and he grew
fascinated by them. McVeigh told people he wanted to be a gun shop
owner, and he sometimes took a gun to school to impress the other
boys. After graduating high school with honors, McVeigh became
intensely interested in gun rights and the Second Amendment to the
United States Constitution, and read magazines such as Soldier of
Fortune. He went to work for Burke Armored Car Service.

McVeigh was known throughout his life as a loner; his only known
affiliations were voter registration with the Republican Party when he
lived in New York, and a membership in the National Rifle Association
while in the military.[8] Despite the former, McVeigh self-identified
as a libertarian in a statement that was reported by MSNBC.com and The
Washington Post;[9] and in 1996, while in federal prison, he voted for
Libertarian candidate Harry Browne in the United States presidential
election, 1996.[10] The LP said that he violated the nonaggression
principle and thus was not a true libertarian.